Microsoft

Nice compensation, superior stock program, superior health care, impactful products, clear career path, easy to switch teams internally, and free food on premises.

Very poor work-life balance.

Meetings scheduled after hours and close to EOD that you don't have to attend, but you are strongly expected to.

Frequent and long on-call duty with many calls day and night.

A lot of your time is spent on checking and ping-ponging new customer issues.

Big project with hundreds of contributors and tight deadlines; the code changes literally under your hands.

Fragile and complicated CI pipeline broken or blocked every other day.

Office far removed from the centre with not very many restaurants around.